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he is proficient in economics and law, holds a doctorate of law, and he's written a number of books, most recently "the future of modernization: what we can learn from the crisis." mr. minister, we are delighted you could be with us. we look forward to your remarks, and then we will pepper you with questions. >> thank you very much. sorry for being late. i think today we are all, our hearts and our minds with the people in boston. and i hope this nightmare will be over soon. i am to make some remarks on financial markets, and things are going well in europe as you all know. [laugh i will be brief to have time for discussion. therefore, i just wanted to say we all remember the crisis, by the way, started in the united states, the so-called lehman problem in 2008. and in 2008 we all agreed it will never happen again. we have to draw lessons, we have to learn our lessons from the washington summit to london and pittsburgh and toronto and up to g20 meeting today this washington. in washington. we have made a lot of progress in -- since then. we agreed, all, that the reasons were three re
he is proficient in economics and law, holds a doctorate of law, and he's written a number of books, most recently "the future of modernization: what we can learn from the crisis." mr. minister, we are delighted you could be with us. we look forward to your remarks, and then we will pepper you with questions. >> thank you very much. sorry for being late. i think today we are all, our hearts and our minds with the people in boston. and i hope this nightmare will be over soon. i...
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law enforcement. the fbi worked with the canadian law enforcement. i refer you to them for more details on this, but this successful cooperation illustrated the close relationship we have with canada on so many important issues like foreign affairs, trade, emergency preparedness, and security. it was a welcomed announcement by the canadian government. yes? >> the president back in syria, chemical weapons, a red line that would trigger unspecified u.s. action. was the administration made aware in advance they would lay down accusations today and go public with them? if it's true, what were the consequences be, and could that -- >> i'm not going to speculate about consequences. what i'll say is that the president made clear that the use of or transmission of chemical weapons including transition to nonstate actors would be unacceptable in the president's view, unacceptable to the united states. we have made clear we made clear about reports of chemical weapons made by, in syria, it's also important to note that the use of chemical weapons is difficult
law enforcement. the fbi worked with the canadian law enforcement. i refer you to them for more details on this, but this successful cooperation illustrated the close relationship we have with canada on so many important issues like foreign affairs, trade, emergency preparedness, and security. it was a welcomed announcement by the canadian government. yes? >> the president back in syria, chemical weapons, a red line that would trigger unspecified u.s. action. was the administration made...
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and by law they have to keep the record. and by law, they cannot use that as a registration. cannot by law, even in our bill we even make sure that you cannot use any type of information for registration. and we said if you try to do it, if your government agency or a person that works for a government and you use any of these records, it's a felony with 15 years of imprisonment. that's how much this bill protects my rights as a law-abiding gun owner. we think it's reasonable to provide mandatory instant criminal background checks for every gun sold at a gun show. we've talked about this before. the law today says that if i go to a gun show and i go and there's a dealer, a licensed dealer, that dealer still has to do a background check on me and keep the proper report. but i could go to a table over or go outside in the parking lot, and nothing is required of me. nothing. and all we're doing is taking current law and making it uniform so everybody plays by the same set of rules. we think it helps tremendously. we talk about the criminals and people who have been adjudicated t
and by law they have to keep the record. and by law, they cannot use that as a registration. cannot by law, even in our bill we even make sure that you cannot use any type of information for registration. and we said if you try to do it, if your government agency or a person that works for a government and you use any of these records, it's a felony with 15 years of imprisonment. that's how much this bill protects my rights as a law-abiding gun owner. we think it's reasonable to provide...
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this law will work. since we started administering instant background checks, more than 1.7 million felons, fugitives, domestic abusers and people with serious mental illnesses have been denied access to firearms. and that's under the system that exists today, with all of its loopholes and all of its flaws. and we've seen that women are less likely to be killed by an intimate partner in states that have expanded their own background check systems. and, look, about 90% of americans want us to pass this measure. 90%. this is not a republican idea. this is not a democratic idea. it's just a good idea. i think it would be a remarkable failure of our democracy if we can't get this done. and if we can't, i'm afraid it's because we've relied on fears and falsehoods instead of on facts. for instance, some have argued that an expanded background check system will result in a federal gun registry. but federal gun registries are banned under existing law, and the legislation that we are considering would not repeal
this law will work. since we started administering instant background checks, more than 1.7 million felons, fugitives, domestic abusers and people with serious mental illnesses have been denied access to firearms. and that's under the system that exists today, with all of its loopholes and all of its flaws. and we've seen that women are less likely to be killed by an intimate partner in states that have expanded their own background check systems. and, look, about 90% of americans want us to...
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what this law does is allow states that already have laws on the books to carry out the implementation of those. so, again, our citizens -- we have no income tax. if the country and if society continues as is and sales tax continues to erode because of internet sales coming in from other places, what eventually could happen this our tate is we'd have to move to an income tax. so, you know, our citizens like it the way it is. i'm glad that this legislation is where it is. i hope it's going to become law, because i believe it's something that really creates fairness, if you will, in the marketplace so that all of those -- all of those who are treating -- who are selling goods in the state of tennessee and other places are treated exactly the same. now, i've heard some arguments from my friends in the participation community talking about -- in the financial community talking about this opening the door some kind of financial transaction tax. i'm on the banking committee and we discuss a the although of issues relative to financial thugs and transactions. i know of no reason anybody shoul
what this law does is allow states that already have laws on the books to carry out the implementation of those. so, again, our citizens -- we have no income tax. if the country and if society continues as is and sales tax continues to erode because of internet sales coming in from other places, what eventually could happen this our tate is we'd have to move to an income tax. so, you know, our citizens like it the way it is. i'm glad that this legislation is where it is. i hope it's going to...
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we have a governmental laws we have to proceed on some rule of law. so i would appreciate everything has been said that there's a reason to believe that when john mchugh made this very interesting statement that he was actually saying that the department of justice -- >> wou t gentleman yield? >> i will speak that was exactly the point in theline tibecaure w an inference made, and maybe you're right, you should've just called me cute directly, but when the inference was made and we were going to have the attorney general testify here today, i think it's important that if there was coronation between dod and the justice department on how this case is going to move forward and i was going to be handled, that it would be fair to ask, ask the attorney general in what capacity in fact that going on. he answered those questions but i think for the people sitting in the back of the rim deserve to lead to get to the bottom of the if you bottom of the if you don't have the answer, don't have the answer to these questions. and if it's more appropriate in dod, t
we have a governmental laws we have to proceed on some rule of law. so i would appreciate everything has been said that there's a reason to believe that when john mchugh made this very interesting statement that he was actually saying that the department of justice -- >> wou t gentleman yield? >> i will speak that was exactly the point in theline tibecaure w an inference made, and maybe you're right, you should've just called me cute directly, but when the inference was made and we...
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the postal service is, a law-abiding arm of the federal government. congress passed the law. we reviewed it. we complied with it and informed customers which we did last week. our customers require certainty especially as something as fundamental as our delivery schedule. and so, we announced that we would delay implementation of our new schedule until we gained legislation giving us the ability to move forward, mr. chairman, we need the flexibility under the law to implement our new delivery schedule. we need the ability to develop, and price products quickly. the ability to control our health care and retirement costs. the ability to switch to a defined contribution retirement system for newly hired employees. the ability to quickly realign our mail processing and delivery and retail networks. we need a more streamlined governance model. we kneeled more flexibility in the way we leverage our workers to. contrary to arguments we hear from some parties it is not enough to merely res prefundingf retire health we can implement the five-year business plan. close, i'm sorry the $
the postal service is, a law-abiding arm of the federal government. congress passed the law. we reviewed it. we complied with it and informed customers which we did last week. our customers require certainty especially as something as fundamental as our delivery schedule. and so, we announced that we would delay implementation of our new schedule until we gained legislation giving us the ability to move forward, mr. chairman, we need the flexibility under the law to implement our new delivery...